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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of raven.

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Examples

  • To right and left he smote with the short sword, making a havoc and sparing none, for the sword ravened in his hand.

    The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  •  Because I have, in the times before rehab, ravened whomever I could.

    ando 2010

  • I rolled slowly up the pavement leading up to the park until eventually the pavement ran out and a small ravened gravel path ascended.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • I rolled slowly up the pavement leading up to the park until eventually the pavement ran out and a small ravened gravel path ascended.

    Beth runs away, gets stuck up a mountain in a wheelchair, comes home in ambulance Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • Now he ravened through the massacre and the fiends avoided him, turning to the easy black victims.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • By the thousands they had descended on the Isle of the Gods in the night, and whether stealth or treachery let them through the walls, the comrades never knew, but now they ravened through the corpse-strewn streets, glutting their blood-lust in holocaust and massacre wholesale.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "Earthquake!" he gasped, and smitten by this new terror he caught up the senseless girl and plunged recklessly down the cracking steps, hacking and stabbing a way through the crimson whirlpools of bestial humanity that still tore and ravened.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Sir Martin Wagstaff will perform that office, and in default of a cudgel, the devil gulp him, if I should not eat her up quick, as Candaul the Lydian king did his wife, whom he ravened and devoured.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Sir Martin Wagstaff will perform that office, and in default of a cudgel, the devil gulp him, if I should not eat her up quick, as Candaul the Lydian king did his wife, whom he ravened and devoured.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And he threw up his own shield, abandoning the illusion, and watched as the Swarm ravened outside it, tearing the scant furnishings of the Hall to shreds in frustration, unable to reach the meat so tantalizingly out of reach.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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  • Kindled like torches for his joy,

    Charred and ravened women lie

    from "Pursuit," by Sylvia Plath

    April 8, 2008